The moment Daniel stepped one foot into the church—
The boss's three grotesque tentacles lashed toward him at the same time, moving at terrifying speed!
Daniel activated God Speed almost instinctively.
His vision blurred, and in the next instant, he was already standing behind a pillar on the left side of the church.
Boom!
The tentacles slammed into the place where he had just been standing, instantly smashing three rows of pews into splinters and sending rubble flying everywhere.
Daniel sucked in a breath.
That speed...
If he hadn't had God Speed, that hit probably would have buried him into the ground.
Having missed its first strike, the Father Boss turned its head and looked toward the pillar where Daniel had taken cover.
The three tentacles rose again.
But this time, Daniel didn't dodge.
He directly drew his bow and fired!
Whoosh!
The arrow shot straight for the Father's face!
The Father raised his left arm to block. The explosive arrow detonated on impact with his arm.
With a deafening boom, black crystal shards exploded across the floor.
-2000!
A red critical hit number popped up, but its total HP only dropped by around 2%.
Daniel's eye twitched.
One hundred thousand HP!
That arrow of his would have dealt at least 80% to an elite monster outside the mine.
And against this thing, it only shaved off 2%?
This bastard had at least 100,000 HP, minimum!
Enraged by the arrow, the Father Boss threw back its head and roared. Its three tentacles whipped wildly through the air, making the entire church tremble.
Then, all of a sudden, more than a dozen black crystal spikes burst from the ground, stabbing toward Daniel from every direction!
Daniel chain-blinked with God Speed, darting back and forth through the forest of spikes.
The spikes kept chasing after him, stabbing the ground until it looked like a giant hedgehog.
"Holy shit—this damn AoE skill again!"
This ultra-wide-range attack from the Beast-Turned Father had slaughtered countless players in his previous lives.
Even Daniel himself had been wrecked by it more than once.
He kept dodging while shooting, explosions echoing without end, and the Father's HP slowly began to drop.
95%... 85%... 80%...
But it was too slow.
At this pace, he'd need to fire at least a hundred arrows to kill it.
One hundred arrows meant about five minutes of combat.
And during those five minutes, he'd have to maintain nonstop dodging. One slip-up and he'd be flattened by a tentacle.
Daniel kept fighting while calculating his MP.
His current Intelligence was 45, giving him a total of 3450 MP.
Creating one clone required 100 MP, so ten clones would cost 1000 MP, leaving him with 2450 MP to cast skills and blink.
But the problem was—
He had never tried controlling ten clones at once before.
He had no idea how effective it would be.
"Screw it. Let's try."
At this stage, he still had no chance to learn dedicated Archer skills yet, so he could only rely on Class skills and equipment skills for damage output.
That meant every detail had to be calculated carefully.
Spotting an opening, he immediately activated the God Speed clone effect!
With a thought, four afterimages appeared behind him out of thin air.
Each one looked exactly like him, holding a Moon Reaper, moving in perfect sync.
Daniel froze.
Why are there only four?
Then he immediately understood.
He had used a lot of MP fighting all the way here. Right now, he only had a little over 400 MP, just enough to create four clones.
"Damn it. Forgot about that."
He hurriedly retreated, dodging tentacles while chugging MP potions.
The Father kept pursuing him, whip after whip coming from its tentacles, several of them nearly grazing him.
Thirty seconds later, the clones vanished.
Fortunately, Daniel had already finished drinking his potions, and his MP had climbed back up to 3000.
He took a deep breath and used the skill again.
This time, ten afterimages appeared behind him at once, standing neatly in a row, all raising their bows together.
A smile curved at Daniel's lips.
"Come on, let this freak taste what saturation firepower feels like."
He drew his bow.
The ten afterimages behind him did the same.
Eleven bows were aimed at the Father at the same time.
The Father seemed to sense the danger. Its three tentacles whipped wildly as it lunged toward Daniel.
Eleven arrows left the strings at once!
Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh—!
It was like a rain of arrows pouring down!
Before the Father's tentacles had even finished lashing forward, the first wave of arrows had already hit.
A thunderous explosion erupted, followed by the second wave, then the third...
Its enormous body was basically a giant living target. All eleven arrows landed cleanly.
Boom boom boom boom boom—!
The explosions blended into one continuous roar, illuminating the entire church with firelight.
The shockwaves shattered what remained of the stained glass and even shook stalactites loose from the ceiling outside.
By the time the smoke cleared, the Father's HP had dropped to 50%.
Daniel's eyes widened.
One volley took off 30%?!
Before he could even celebrate, the Father let out an earth-shaking roar.
The entire church began to quake.
The ground cracked open, and countless black crystals burst out from the fissures, growing madly.
Those crystals writhed as if alive, spreading toward Daniel!
[Ding! Beast-Turned Father has entered Phase Two: Berserk State]
[Attack Speed +50%, Movement Speed +50%, Defense +50%, New Skill: Crystal Spread]
Daniel's face changed instantly, and he hurried backward.
But the crystal spread was fast too—within the blink of an eye, it had already covered half the church.
He could only keep using God Speed to evade, jumping onto pews, onto the pulpit, onto pillars.
The Father fought like a maniac, its tentacles thrashing, crystal spikes stabbing everywhere, tearing the entire church apart piece by piece.
Daniel kept dodging while sniping whenever he found an opening.
The moment the clone skill came off cooldown, he unleashed another synchronized volley.
35%... 20%... 5%!
Finally, after the third full barrage, the Father's HP dropped to 5%.
And at that exact moment, the Beast-Turned Father went completely berserk.
It threw back its head with a long howl, and all the crystals on its body suddenly exploded, turning into countless fragments that shot outward in every direction!
Daniel's pupils shrank.
This was a full-map AoE!
He had been prepared for this move all along.
But now the crystal fragments covered the entire church.
There was nowhere to dodge!
At the last possible instant, he activated God Speed.
His vision blurred, and the next second, he was already standing at the iron gate on this floor, while a storm of crackling impacts rang out behind him.
He looked back.
The church was in complete ruin. Everything inside had been riddled full of holes by the crystal fragments.
Inside the church, the Father's HP remained frozen at 5%.
It was breathing heavily, its three tentacles hanging limply against the floor.
But its eyes were still locked onto Daniel with murderous hatred.
Daniel raised his bow and aimed at the Father's head.
The Father seemed to sense that this would be the final blow.
It struggled to force itself upright, and its three tentacles lashed toward Daniel with the last of their strength.
Fire!
Eleven arrows left the strings at once.
Before the Father's tentacles had even finished reaching forward, the first wave of arrows had already arrived.
The explosions detonated in a deafening chain, followed by the second wave, then the third...
Boom boom boom boom boom—!
This time the distance was much shorter.
The shockwaves from the blasts directly tore the church roof apart, and broken stone came crashing down in a cascade.
Daniel was blasted backward three meters, slamming hard into the ground and losing another 5% HP.
Then the smoke cleared.
The Father was still standing.
But only barely.
A washbasin-sized hole had been blasted through the Beast-Turned Father's chest. Through it, Daniel could see the shattered pulpit behind him.
All three tentacles had been blown off at the roots, lying on the ground and still twitching weakly.
The crimson glow in its eyes dimmed little by little.
Daniel stared at the longbow in his hands in disbelief, his heart pounding with excitement.
The Beast-Turned Father—
The monster once known as the Newbie Butcher—
Had actually been solo-killed by him?